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City of Livingston · Statewide General Election

Livingston City Council (Short Term)

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of Livingston's four at-large City Council seats for the remainder of an unexpired term -- a short-term seat distinct from the two regular Council seats also on this ballot. Livingston has no council districts.

Only one candidate, Robert S. Wallis, qualified for Livingston's short-term Council seat -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This seat fills the remainder of an unexpired term on Livingston's five-member City Council -- the Mayor plus four Council Members, all elected at large citywide; Livingston has no council districts -- distinct from the two regular Council seats also on this ballot.

Wallis already holds the seat: the county's own candidate list prints his ballot designation as "Appointed Councilmember." This dataset could not independently confirm how or when the vacancy he is filling arose.

Robert S. Wallis

Robert S. Wallis is the appointed incumbent for Livingston's short-term City Council seat, now standing for it in a special election to serve out the balance of its unexpired term. The county's own candidate list prints his ballot designation as "Appointed Councilmember" and shows he did not file a candidate statement. This dataset found no independent news coverage, campaign website, or other public material describing his occupation, the seat's prior occupant, or his platform.

Strengths

Already holds this seat by prior appointment, giving him direct experience in the role heading into a short, unexpired term.

Trade-offs

No independent news profile, campaign website, or filed candidate statement was found, and this pass could not confirm why the seat became vacant.

Keep in mind

Running unopposed for the balance of an unexpired term, his main accountability mechanism this cycle is public scrutiny rather than a contested vote.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • countyofmerced.com (opens in a new tab)Merced County -- own "November 3, 2026 General Election -- All Contests -- Final Qualified Candidate List" (CFMR009 report, printed 8/25/2026): names Livingston's three city contests (Mayor, Councilmember Short Term, Councilmember) and every candidate's printed ballot designation and candidate-statement-filed status, read directly from the source PDF's Livingston section.
  • themercedfocus.org (opens in a new tab)The Merced FOCUS -- "Key city races take shape in Merced County. See who made the filing deadline" (Victor A. Patton, Aug. 9, 2026): independently confirms Mayor Jose Moran is not seeking re-election, that Japjeet Singh Uppal and Jason Roth (both sitting Councilmembers) are the two Mayor candidates, that Uppal ran unsuccessfully in the June 2026 27th Assembly District primary, that four candidates (incumbent Gurpal/"Gurpaul" Samra, Parwinder Singh Uppal, Mohinder Kanda, Terika DeGraw) are vying for two Council seats, and that Robert Wallis is the sole candidate for the short-term Council seat.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Livingston, California": used narrowly for the fixed, dated 2020 Census population figure (14,172) and its own-worded confirmation of the council-manager government structure (a five-member Council including the Mayor) -- does not cover the 2026 election.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer searches attempted for all seven Livingston candidates: every query returned only Cal-Access's own Incapsula bot-detection challenge page, not usable results, the same block documented elsewhere in this dataset -- and Cal-Access's documented scope covers state-level filings only, which excludes local candidates in any case. No Livingston-specific local campaign-finance disclosure portal or posted FPPC filing was found on any reachable source either. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source, not any candidate's actual finances.

Last updated September 1, 2026.